What is the User-Agent Parser & Spoofer Helper?
Every browser and HTTP client sends a User-Agent string identifying itself; paste one in here and this tool breaks it down into browser, rendering engine, OS, device type, and CPU architecture, and also keeps a library of common UA strings you can copy for testing.
How it works
Parsing runs a fixed, ordered list of regular expressions against the string for each category — browser, engine, OS, device, CPU — and takes the first pattern that matches, the same approach real UA-sniffing libraries use. The Spoofer Helper is just a static list of known UA strings (Googlebot, recent Chrome/Firefox/Safari builds, curl, iPhone) that re-run through the same parser when you load one.
SysAdmin & security use cases
- Confirm what UA a curl command, script, or scraper is actually sending before debugging a block.
- See how a site's markup or layout changes when it's requested with a mobile UA versus desktop.
- Load a Googlebot UA to check how a page responds to crawler-specific server logic.
- Cross-check a raw UA string logged by your analytics against what it should decode to.